PM denies 'homophobic, anti-women' Libs

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has rejected one of his cabinet minister's claims the party is widely seen as "homophobic, anti-women, climate-change deniers".

Minister for Women Kelly O'Dwyer launched the spray against Liberal officials and "ideological warriors" for hijacking the party's positions on social issues during a post-mortem of the disastrous Victorian state election result.

Mr Morrison said that was not how the party viewed itself.

"That's not our view and it's also not Kelly's view, that that's what the Liberal Party is about," he told reporters.

"What we're doing is getting on with the job of delivering the services that are necessary for families, and particularly women in families, to make the choices they want to make."

The prime minister said Ms O'Dwyer was "leading the charge" to champion the cause of women.

The Herald Sun reports Ms O'Dwyer told colleagues in Canberra the "crusades" of some conservative religious MPs had dragged the party away from "who we are as Liberals".